World Bee Day

World Bee Day is a chance to celebrate bees, their crucial role as pollinators, and their importance to our ecosystems.

Yet, they’re increasingly at risk from factory farming, land clearing, and the use of pesticides, so World Bee Day is also an opportunity to highlight the plight of bees around the world.

Let’s use this day to protect the bees and, in turn, protect our planet.

Ready for some interesting facts about bees? Let’s go:

1. Bees have five eyes, two large ones and three smaller ones in the centre of their heads.
2. Bees and flowers are interdependent, as bees need pollen and nectar for food, while plants need bees to enable their reproduction.
3. Bees carrying pollen look like they have two orange sacks stuck to their hairy legs.
4. A third of the world’s food production depends on bees, as they pollinate three quaters of the most popular global crops.
5. Factory farming and pesticides are hurting bees. Though designed to kill pests, these chemicals are incredibly harmful to bees.
6. Bees are losing their natural habitat to farming, as trees, meadows, and other plants are being cleared to make way for livestock and crops to produce animal feed.
7. Bees don’t want to sting you. They’re more docile than hornets and wasps and only sting when they feel threatened.